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In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good
intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of
contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.
Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of
four complexes of 'ruling' institutions, namely universities with
their international service learning, the United Nations and allied
international institutions bent on global citizenship education,
international non-governmental organizations and foundations
promoting social entrepreneurship, and global corporations and
their mouthpieces pitching corporate social responsibility and
sustainable development. The question is: in the context of
Northern or Western imperialism and US-led, neoliberal, global,
corporate capitalism, and the planetary Armageddon they are
wringing, what is the concept of global citizenship doing for these
institutions? The studies in the book put this question to each of
these four institutional complexes from broadly political-economic
and post-colonial premises, focusing on the concept's discursive
use, against the background of the mounting production of the
global non-citizen as the global citizen's 'other'. Addressed to
all users of the concept of global citizen(ship) from university
students and faculty in global studies to social entrepreneurs and
United Nations bureaucrats, the book's studies ultimately ask
whether the idea helps or hinders the global quest for social and
economic justice.
In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good
intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of
contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.
Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of
four complexes of 'ruling' institutions, namely universities with
their international service learning, the United Nations and allied
international institutions bent on global citizenship education,
international non-governmental organizations and foundations
promoting social entrepreneurship, and global corporations and
their mouthpieces pitching corporate social responsibility and
sustainable development. The question is: in the context of
Northern or Western imperialism and US-led, neoliberal, global,
corporate capitalism, and the planetary Armageddon they are
wringing, what is the concept of global citizenship doing for these
institutions? The studies in the book put this question to each of
these four institutional complexes from broadly political-economic
and post-colonial premises, focusing on the concept's discursive
use, against the background of the mounting production of the
global non-citizen as the global citizen's 'other'. Addressed to
all users of the concept of global citizen(ship) from university
students and faculty in global studies to social entrepreneurs and
United Nations bureaucrats, the book's studies ultimately ask
whether the idea helps or hinders the global quest for social and
economic justice.
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